The Blanco

I don’t know how Carney can say the “focus” of this Budget is affordability when they are doubling permanent immigration for 2027. We're going to hit 750,000 in just 2027 once you count the ranges and what’s outside the 380k table. And they know they’re hiding it because it's dispersed across three different links/reports. One-Time Initiatives continue and have transitioned to Time-Limited Measures. Different words so it doesn’t show in the Levels numbers and they can continue to obfuscate. I can’t believe they have the audacity to jack up the majority of fraudulent "protected class" admissions (~1,200% over and above the annual target). These aren't workers. A large portion of them are on government supports...We can't afford this. We can't even look after our own population @MarkJCarney @LenaMetlegeDiab @CitImmCanada Seriously, what the hell are you guys doing? This is outrageous.

You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland). You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.

This can't be real.

DRIPA is arguably the most controversial file facing whichever party forms govt. @LDoerkson said @Conservative_BC will repeal it. @Dave_Eby has said nothing. Not-one-word. Here's some other words missing from @bcndp campaign materials: DRIPA: 0  UNDRIP: 0  Declaration Act: 0  Indigenous: 0  Aboriginal: 0  Title: 0  Private property: 0  Shared decision making: 0  Government to government: 0  First Nations: 10  Reconciliation: 2 Sources: Build BC Strong online plan, BC Strong Fiscal & Costing Plan, David Eby’s Plan for Surrey

Une vendeuse qui fuit sa propre boutique. À Lyon. En France. En 2026. Oui, au bout d'un moment, il faut blâmer les abrutis qui brandissent un drapeau palestinien ou algérien pour des causes dont ils n'ont absolument rien à foutre, et qui s'en servent comme d'un permis de piller. Ils sont responsables de leurs actes. Point. Mais si on s'arrête là, on n'a rien compris. Ces gamins ne sont pas tombés du ciel. Ils sont le produit d'un système. Ce système a des architectes, et ces architectes ont des idées. Il va falloir demander des comptes à tous ceux qui ont créé les conditions de ce chaos, et aux idées qui l'ont rendu possible. Marc Andreessen les a nommées dans son manifeste techno-optimiste. Ce sont nos ennemis. Le collectivisme, l'étatisme, la planification centrale, le socialisme. La bureaucratie, la vétocratie, la gérontocratie. La haine du mérite, de l'ambition, de l'effort, de la réussite, de la grandeur. La corruption, la capture réglementaire, les rentes et ceux qui en vivent. Des institutions qui furent jeunes, ardentes, en quête de vérité, et qui aujourd'hui sont compromises, rongées, en train de s'effondrer. La tour d'ivoire, et l'expert diplômé qui sait tout mieux que vous et ne paie jamais pour ses erreurs. Le contrôle de la parole et le contrôle de la pensée. La stagnation, la décroissance, ce nihilisme si chic chez nos élites qui rêve de moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, moins de vie. Et au fond de tout ça, le Dernier Homme de Nietzsche : celui qui ne veut plus rien bâtir, plus rien défendre, plus rien transmettre. Juste être tranquille. Quand on désarme moralement un pays, qu'on apprend à sa jeunesse à mépriser ce qu'elle a reçu, qu'on remplace la transmission par la repentance, l'autorité par l'excuse et le travail par le guichet, on ne fabrique pas des citoyens. On fabrique des pillards. Et des vendeuses qui s'enfuient. Ces idées ont été théorisées dans les années 80 par Mitterrand et par Attali. Elles sont aujourd'hui incarnées par Macron. Quarante ans. La même pente. Le même résultat. Il va falloir prendre enfin la leçon du gauchisme et du socialisme, parce qu'elle est toujours la même, partout, à chaque siècle. Ils promettent l'égalité et livrent le chaos. Ils promettent la protection et livrent la peur. Ils promettent la paix sociale et livrent une commerçante qui court pour sauver sa peau dans son propre magasin. Si on n'est pas capable d'apprendre de l'histoire, on mérite notre sort. Et on méritera ce qui vient toujours après le chaos : le totalitarisme, et ses millions de morts. Le XXe siècle nous l'a écrit en lettres de sang. Nous n'avons aucune excuse. Nous savons. Raymond Aron l'avait dit : « L'histoire est tragique. » Ceux qui l'oublient ne s'en protègent pas. Ils finissent simplement par la subir. Alors choisissez votre camp. Celui de ceux qui excusent, qui expliquent, qui regardent ailleurs. Ou celui de ceux qui construisent, qui travaillent, qui créent, qui transmettent, et qui refusent de laisser ce pays devenir un endroit où l'on fuit sa propre boutique. La France n'est pas condamnée. Mais elle ne se sauvera pas toute seule.

"You benefit from a program that very few people have access to and one that you won't expand." A reporter confronts @Dave_Eby over failing to deliver on the NDP’s promised $10-a-day child care expansion while accessing the service himself.

The jury that I recently served on was hung because: 1. Three jurors refused to discuss the evidence with an open mind. At the start of deliberations, they declared: “I will never change my mind on this. You could never convince me otherwise.” They demanded a hung jury verdict in the first hour of deliberations - simply because our initial vote was split. That was a violation of jury instructions. 2. Very few of the jurors were able to take the entire case in context, and parse through all the testimonies and evidence to decipher what we believed was the truth. They wanted to pick 1 testimony as the perfect telling and did not know how to decide given discrepancies between them all. 3. Two jurors kept objecting to points of discussion because of “bias” that they claimed we were invoking into our deliberations. These jurors claimed that some of the evidence submitted during trial could not be considered by the jury because it would “trigger our biases.” They kept interjecting “that’s bias” or “you’re just biased” or “that’s your bias tainting the evidence.” Other jurors responded to this defensively and would back down at the accusations. 4. One juror in particular - totally woke - viewed the entire world as groups (oppressors) and individuals (victims) and so would not accept anything as true, right, or good that could come from the group (they were the accusers), and defaulted to the individual (the accused) as the only possible honest person. She refused to accept any testimony or evidence offered by the group, and became visibly shaken and angry if any other juror questioned the integrity or testimony of the accused - a testimony that was filled with errors and contradictions. She was also very condescending to all others. 5. Multiple jurors declared it was “impossible to decide the facts of the case” because there was no video evidence. They lamented that we don’t have “surveillance like in the UK” in all public places, and as such it would be impossible to determine the facts of this case. If t hey could not see the events, they would not believe them. 6. Several jurors could not understand the written law, even after being provided explanations and instructions from the court. They simply could not comprehend. Not that they disagreed, but they could not understand. 7. Two jurors kept interrupting the process of discussion saying “you’re wasting our time” and they kept telling us they wanted to vote and go home and put this mess behind us. Alas…a hung jury was the right outcome. Not because of the case, but because of the deficiency of the jury.